How to format your references using the Cellulose citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cellulose. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Doncaster CP (2006) Comment on “On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects” III. Science 311:1100; author reply 1100

A journal article with 2 authors

Yan ZB, Liu J-M (2013) Coexistence of high performance resistance and capacitance memory based on multilayered metal-oxide structures. Sci Rep 3:2482

A journal article with 3 authors

Murtagh GJ, Dyer PS, Crittenden PD (2000) Sex and the single lichen. Nature 404:564

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sait SM, Liu WC, Thompson DJ, et al (2000) Invasion sequence affects predator-prey dynamics in a multi-species interaction. Nature 405:448–450

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Raut R, Swamy MNS (2010) Modern Analog Filter Analysis and Design. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Madonna R (ed) (2016) Stem Cells and Cardiac Regeneration. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hou L, McMahon FJ (2016) The Genetic Basis of Bipolar Disorder. In: Zarate CA Jr, Manji HK (eds) Bipolar Depression: Molecular Neurobiology, Clinical Diagnosis, and Pharmacotherapy. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 73–92

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Cellulose.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Tracking Tiger Sharks Reveals Bird-Like Migration. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2014) Commercial Aviation: Raising Passenger Facility Charges Would Increase Airport Funding, but Other Effects Less Certain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Mersch C (2012) Campus-based drunk-driving intervention program: A grant proposal project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Kishkovsky S (2005) For Russia’s Nouveaux Riches, Indoor Plumbing Deluxe. New York Times A4

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Doncaster 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Doncaster 2006; Yan and Liu 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Yan and Liu 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sait et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cellulose
Abbreviation	Cellulose
ISSN (print)	0969-0239
ISSN (online)	1572-882X
Scope	Polymers and Plastics